Fox Contributor Under Fire For Claiming Police Don’t Kill Innocents

Fox News Channel contributor Katie Pavlich is taking fire from the left for comments she made Monday regarding African-Americans who have been shot and killed by police.

Pavlich was a guest on the Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom, along with liberal David Goodfriend. In a conversation about the high number of blacks who are being killed by other blacks in the inner cities, Pavlich stated, “And by the way, it’s not that — police aren’t shooting innocent black men. And when they do, they’re held accountable for it.”

Goodfriend immediately pounced on her comment saying, “What? Did you just say police are not shooting innocent black men?”

Still incredulous, he questioned her statement again. “Did you just say that on national television?” Goodfriend asked.

Pavlich attempted to explain her statement by saying, “This narrative, this narrative that you continue to push, this hands up bogus — ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ bogus narrative that came out of Ferguson, which was proven false by the Department of Justice.”

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MacCallum backed up Pavlich on that point by stating, “Which was proven to never have happened by the Department of Justice by the way.”

As WJ readers may recall, Michael Brown was reported to have raised his hands in a “don’t shoot” motion before he was killed by police in Ferguson, a story the investigation by the Department of Justice deemed to be false.

Pavlich turned the tables on Goodfriend and accused him of promoting an agenda based on misinformation given to the public.

“You are pushing a narrative that is false and that doesn’t do anything to solve crime in the inner cities and to prevent African-American men from being shot by each other,” she said.

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Pavlich began the interview by citing mortality statistics as provided by the government’s own Center for Disease Control.

“Martha, the number one [cause of] death among African-American men ages 18 to 30 is homicide,” Pavlich said.

In truth, homicide is the leading cause of death of black males ages 15-34.

Those CDC statistics do not read “death by cop,” a point Pavlich seemed to be trying to make until Goodfriend scoffed at her notion they’re not being killed by cops.

The FNC contributor went on to say, “And they are being killed by other young black men. There were 22 people killed in Chicago last weekend alone. And yet you don’t have Hillary Clinton talking about that. Donald Trump is trying to get to the heart of that issue.”

Calling out Goodfriend, Pavlich stated, “And as you’ve seen David do, he’s trying to distract away from the fact that there’s a very serious crime problem in the inner cities.”

In a related commentary, Yale law professor Stephen Carter addressed the issues of black-on-black violence and police shooting incidents.

In an opinion piece for the Chicago Tribune, Carter summed up the argument by stating, “Would the nation be better off if tens of thousands marched every time one young black man slew another? Probably.”

And then Carter addressed the passionate response the public has when a police officer kills a black man.

“But there are reasons for the community’s more visceral response to an interracial shooting — especially when the killer is a police officer,” Carter wrote.